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Celebrating Bond-Selective Imaging: Nature Methods May 2025 Cover Story

Nature Methods has published a special focus issue on Bond-Selective Imaging in its May 2025 edition, highlighting the impact and evolution of this powerful technique. The issue features two historical commentaries on the invention of coherent Raman scattering microscopy and vibrational photothermal microscopy by Sunney Xie and Ji-Xin Cheng, respectively.

Read the full article here:

Coherent Raman Imaging and Vibrational Photothermal Microscopy.

Our lab’s newest paper is accepted by Physics Review Letters

Dr. Jiaze Yin's paper Mid-infrared energy deposition spectroscopy has been officially accepted by Phyiscs Review Letters, congratulations to Jiaze and all the authors!

Go to this link for more info:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/77077Y34Je815e8c168e8a936d11dece76143341f

 

Photonics Center received $500,000 to establish a scholarship

On Jan 2025, Boston University Photonics Center received $500,000 from SPIE to establish a scholarship in Photonics.

Left: SPIE president. Middle: Ji-Xin Cheng (Faculty Director of SPIE/Optica/IEEE student chapter), Right: Tom Bifano (Photonics Center Director).

SRS Nanoscopy is Published in Nature Methods and Highlighted by DeepTech

Haonan Li et al published "Label-free nanoscopy of cell metabolism by ultrasensitive reweighted visible stimulated Raman scattering", in Nature Methods. This method achieved label-free chemical imaging of nanostructures inside living cells. By leveraging AI, our team developed a stimulated Raman nanoimaging technique with a resolution of up to 86 nanometers.

We produced 5 PhDs in 2024!

Congratulations to Zhongyue, Hongli, Yifan, Xiaowei and Jiaze! May your path ahead be paved with achievements and joy!

New Cover Image in Science Advances

Science Advances publishes a special issue on Chemical Imaging Frontiers, with Prof. Cheng as the editor.

Congratulations!